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... apes or killer apes or grammatical apes . However , there is one recurrent theme : that the primates , including man , can only be understood as social creatures . Every aspect of our behavior , from feeding to reading ( and writing ) ...
... apes or killer apes or grammatical apes . However , there is one recurrent theme : that the primates , including man , can only be understood as social creatures . Every aspect of our behavior , from feeding to reading ( and writing ) ...
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... apes , on the other hand , are too few in number of species to provide this sort of check . The gibbons and siamangs , which on fossil evidence may only be very distantly related to the other apes , are highly specialized brachiators ...
... apes , on the other hand , are too few in number of species to provide this sort of check . The gibbons and siamangs , which on fossil evidence may only be very distantly related to the other apes , are highly specialized brachiators ...
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... apes . Trained or home - raised apes make simple tools , open a series of locked boxes , or trace the path of a complex maze , in play as well as for food reward . They paint pictures , to some esthetic standard of their own , being ...
... apes . Trained or home - raised apes make simple tools , open a series of locked boxes , or trace the path of a complex maze , in play as well as for food reward . They paint pictures , to some esthetic standard of their own , being ...
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Arguing from primate to man | 2 |
Phylogeny and Ecology | 11 |
Summary | 22 |
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